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“This publication provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to the rest of the world. It complements information found in the continuously updated online publication Europe in figures — Eurostat yearbook and in the Eurostat regional yearbook. It may be viewed as an introduction to European and international statistics and provides a …
World Bank: “A shortage of long-term financing since the 2008 crisis is choking the investment-backed growth of companies in developing countries and hampering the ability of credit-worthy families to borrow for education and housing needs and escape poverty, a new World Bank report warned today. At the global level, this shortage of long-term financing also …
Federal Reserve Bank of New York – “The August 2015 Survey of Consumer Expectations results indicate that median inflation expectations decreased slightly at both the one-year ahead and the three-year ahead horizons. Median expected one-year ahead earnings growth remained stable at 2.4 percent, while both perceived layoff and job finding probabilities improved slightly. Median expected …
Electronic Cigarettes: Effect on Federal Excise Taxes Collected on Traditional Cigarettes Is Not Currently Evident, GAO-15-771: Published: Sep 14, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 14, 2015. Federal Spending Accountability: Preserving Capabilities of Recovery Operations Center Could Help Sustain Oversight of Federal Expenditures, GAO-15-814: Published: Sep 14, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 14, 2015. Medicare Part D: Changes …
Hannagan, Anthony and Morduch, Jonathan, Income Gains and Month-to-Month Income Volatility: Household Evidence from the US Financial Diaries (September 11, 2015). NYU Wagner Research Paper No. 2659883; US Financial Diaries Working Paper, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2659883 “The US Financial Diaries track the daily finances of low and moderate-income households over a year. …
“Welcome to the College Scorecard Data site. Here, you can get the data behind the College Scorecard, as well as other data on federal financial aid and earnings information. These data provide insights into the performance of schools eligible to receive federal financial aid, and offer a look at the outcomes of students at those …
The BIS Quarterly Review for September 2015: EME vulnerabilities take centre stage Remarks by Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, and Mr Hyun Shin, Economic Adviser & Head of Research, at the media briefing on 11 September 2015. Content • International banking and financial market development • Special features • Quarterly Review boxes …
“Since 1968, Wild Sanctuary has traveled the globe to record, archive, research, and express the voice of the natural world – its soundscape. These increasingly rare sounds of the wild inform and enrich our specialized efforts from the field to public performance.”
ProPublica study – Debt by Degrees Which Colleges Help Poor Students Most? by Sisi Wei and Annie Waldman, ProPublica, Sept. 12, 2015 “New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows in unprecedented detail how much federal student loan debt college students from low-income families are being saddled with. Use this interactive database to search …
“Dynamic scoring”: Why and how to include macroeconomic effects in budget estimates for legislative proposals by: Douglas W. Elmendorf “Including macroeconomic effects in budget estimates for certain legislative proposals would improve the accuracy of those estimates and would provide important information about the economic effects of those proposals. Moreover, if certain key conditions were satisfied, …
A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults. Adam Looney, U.S. Treasury Department; Constantine Yannelis, Stanford University, September 2015. “This paper examines the rise in student loan delinquency and default drawing on a unique set of administrative data on federal …
“In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly skilled individuals are prospering. But middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are small …
